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he contributors analyse Hindutva`s entrenchment, emphasising on the ethnography of the forms of mediation and/or convergence produced in certain contexts. The 11 case studies highlight three different dynamics of Hindutva`s cultural entrenchment. The first section gathers cases where RSS-affiliated organisations have set up specific cultural or artistic programmes at the regional level, involving the meditation of local people whose interest in these programmes does not necessarily mean that they endorse the Hindutva agenda completely. The next section deals with convergence and refers to cases where the followers gather around a charismatic personality, whose precepts and practice may bring them towards a closer affinity with the Hindutva programme. The last section deals with the contexts of resistance, where social milieus engaged in opposing Hindutva may, in fact, paradoxically, and even inadvertently, imbibe some of its ideas and practices in order to contest its claims.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Daniela Berti | Christine Guillebaud | Djallal G. HeuzA | Anne-CAcile Hoyez | Nicolas Jaoul | Pralay Kanungo | Lucia Michelutti | Christine Moliner | FrAdArique Pagani | GArard Toffin | RaphaA«l Voix
About the Author
Daniela Berti is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris and at the research unit, Centre for Himalayan Studies, Villejuif, F isbn
9780415677998
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Pages : 356
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